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NASB | 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word [as an official messenger]; be ready when the time is right and even when it is not [keep your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome]; correct [those who err in doctrine or behavior], warn [those who sin], exhort and encourage [those who are growing toward spiritual maturity], with inexhaustible patience and [faithful] teaching. |
Subject: Contemporizing Christians Message? |
Bible Note: God gave us text. Things like "The Jesus Movie" impugn the God's wisdom in providing text. Nothing is more relevant and pertinent than the Creators written words to His creation. It is silly to imagine we can somehow jazz it all up because God didn't management to make it all a palatable message. "But still ye will say I can not understand it. What marvel? How shouldest thou understand, if thou wilt not read, nor look upon it? Take the books into thine hands, read the whole story, and that thou understandest, keep it well in memory; that thou understandest not, read it again, and again. If thou can neither so come by it, counsel with some other that is better learned. Go to thy curate and preacher; show thyself to be desirous to know and learn, and I doubt not but God -- seeing thy diligence and readiness (if no man else teach thee) -- will Himself vouchsafe with His Holy Spirit to illuminate thee, and to open unto thee that which was locked from thee." --Thomas Cramner |